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1. traced back to the period of the Warring States and the Qin-Han Dynasties. (中医学理企体系的形成)可追溯到哉国和秦又吋期。
2. Huangdi Neijing (Canon of Medicine) 《 黄帝内经》; Nan Jing ( Classic of Difficulies)《难経》; Shanghan Zabing Lun ( Treatise on Cold Damage and MiscellaneousDiseases)《伤寒杂病论》; Shennong Bencao Jing ( Shennong‘s Classic of Materia Medica )《神衣本草经》。此四书一般被称カ中医四大経典。
3. Su Wen ( Plain Questions) 《素问》; Ling Shu ( Spiritual Pivot)《灵枢》。
4. correspondence between man and nature天人相应。
5. It has supplemented what was unaddressed in Huangdi Neijing in many respects , especially in pulse lore.它(《难经》)在许多方面,尤其在脉学上,补《黄帝内经》之不足。
6. They are divided into three grades according to their properties and effects.根据特性和功效,它们(365 kinds of medicine) 被划分为上、中、下三品。
7. four properties ( cold, hot, warm and cool) (中药)四气(寒、热、温、凉)。
8. five flavors ( sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty) (中药)五味(酸、苦、甘、辛、咸)。
9. seven conditions of ingredients in prescriptions ( single effect , mutual reinforcement, mutual assistance , mutual restraint, mutual inhibition , mutual antagonism and mutual suppression )(中药)七情(单行、相使、相须、相畏、相杀、相恶、相反)。
10. the first pharmacopoeia sponsored officially in China and the earliest pharmacopoeia in the world古代中国第一部国家药典和世界最早的药典。
11. It is the earliest extant classic on etiology and symptomology in China它是中国现存最早的病因证候学专著。
12. the Imperial Medical Bureau太医局。
13. Bureau for Revising Medical Books校正医书局(宋代政府设置,这是我国出版史上首次由政府设立的医书校正专门机构)。
14. four great medical schools represented by ... ....为代表的四大医学流派。即下文的“the School of Cold and Cool"”“寒凉派”;“the School of Purgation”“攻下派”;“the School of Reinforcing the Earth"“补土派”和“the School of Nourishing Yin” “滋阴派”。
15.“Yang is usually excessive while yin is frequently deficient". “阳常有余;阴常不足。”
16. This book is recognized as a monumental work in the history of Chinese materia medica and a great contribution to the development of pharmacology in the world.本书被认为是中药学史上的不朽著作,并对世界药学的发展做出了伟大的贡献。中药学也译作Chinese pharmacy。